The Penrose team is proud to announce the 0.9.8 release. Penrose is virtual directory server. Unlike a traditional directory server, virtual directory does not master the data itself in its own database. Instead a virtual directory will dynamically translate requests it receives to operations in other protocols or data models, such as to a relational database. It comes with Penrose Studio, a GUI-based administration and mapping tool based on eclipse RCP 3.1 platform

Highlights include:
Persistent Cache
Penrose Studio improvement
Embedding Penrose is now easier than ever
Various bug fixes and performance enhancements.

You can find more information in the release notes.

The XFire team is proud to announce the 1.0-M6 release! XFire is a next-generation java SOAP framework. XFire makes service oriented development approachable through its easy to use API and support for standards. It is also highly performant since it is built on a low memory StAX based model.

This release features many improvements:

• JAXB 1.1 and 2.0 support
• Client and Server stub generation
• Improved XML configuration
• Improved Spring support
• Improved client support
• Improved schema customization for Aegis binding
• Many bug fixes

Many people are already using XFire today, realizing its performance and ease of use benefits. Why not try it and see for yourself?

Jparsec is a higher order parser combinator framework written in Java.

It is not a parser generator like YACC or ANTLR. No extra grammar file is required. Grammar is written in native Java language, which also means you can utilize all the utilities in the Java community to get your parser fancy.

JParsec is best in senarios where a dynamic grammar or a context sensitive grammar is needed.

Feature highlights.

* operator precendence grammar.
* dynamic grammar.
* context sensitive grammar.
* Allow both traditional scan/parse approach and ad-hoc approach with 2-way communication between scanner and parser.
* accurate positioning of parse error.
* rich set of pre-defined reusable combinator functions.
* declarative API that resembles BNF.

JParsec can be downloaded at:
http://jparsec.codehaus.org